Two new solo exhibitions in the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete.

The exhibitions of the two Rethymnian artists reflect the artists' special
interaction with their materials and the import of their intellectual
qualities.

The title of the exhibition of Nikos Alexiou, “Gate A”, comes from the
fact that Rethymnon was the first gate/passage into life and art for this
highly important artist who worked either with primary materials like reed and
paper or on the computer with the same sensibility.

The main body of the show is the artist's “Study” for the flagged
pavement at Iviron Monastery and the map of the same monastery. Monumental in
both volume and content, this project began in 2003 and culminated at the Greek
Pavilion of the VeniceBiennale in 2007.

The exhibition includes also traces of the past with the “Solar House” (from
the 1990s series) and traces of the future with the “Arrow” (from the 2008
series). The show was realised with permission and support by the non-profit
company “The Great Garden; Nikos Alexiou Archives”.

In "Άγονη Γραμμή - Non Profit Line” Yorgos Gyparakis presents a
fictional island on which visitors are forced to discipline their body to the
absence of physical activity or constant social wandering.

His sculptures emerge in the space as rock seats, as body receptacles for
meditation, as implements for concentration, as mechanisms for spiritual
workout which act upon the human body by exercising it and toning up its
spirit.

The exhibitions will run through August 31, 2012 and they will be complemented
as usual by guided tours for children and adults and educational programmes.

At the same time, other exhibition areas in the museum feature works from the
Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete.